"Then took the quilt out of its linen wrapper for the pleasure of the brilliant colors and the feel of the velvet. The needlework was very fine and regular. Adair hated needlework and she could not ima..."
- Paulette Jiles
"Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accompl..."
- Daniele Varè
"Pity moment, blah! Let’s turn it around! We do not even need to go into the story of it. We acknowledge this moment and release it. We love and accept and forgive ourselves. And we acknowledge that th..."
- Alaric Hutchinson
"She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?"
- Libbie Hawker